Job requirements
Essential
67 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Knowledge
Use research-based evidence to inform practice within the NMC Code and Clinical Governance Frameworks.
- Knowledge
Work in accordance to the Locality commissioned service specification, to ensure the 5 mandated reviews are completed within required timescales, services provided are evidence based practice and the 6 High impact areas are embedded within practice.
- Knowledge
Ensure services are provided within the HCP model- Your Community, Universal, Targeted and Specialist Services.
- Knowledge
Classify cases in line national stratify of Universal, Universal plus and Universal partnership plus.
- Knowledge
Be compliant with the NELFT mandatory training programme.
- Knowledge
Operate within agreed NELFT policies, standard operating procedures and guidelines.
- Personal Qualities and Values
We are kind.
- Personal Qualities and Values
We are respectful.
- Personal Qualities and Values
We work together with our communities.
- Personal Qualities and Values
Work as an autonomous Practitioner who will provide a safe, effective and high quality service to service users.
- Personal Qualities and Values
Take into account cultural diversity.
- Personal Qualities and Values
Use child and family centred approaches.
- Personal Qualities and Values
Demonstrate empathy, tact and persuasion.
- Personal Qualities and Values
Be responsive to local health needs using skills of advocacy as appropriate.
- Clinical Experience and Practice
Lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, and ensure the 4, 5, 6 Service model is implemented in practice.
- Clinical Experience and Practice
Provide expert advice, support and interventions to all families with children in the first years of life.
- Clinical Experience and Practice
Monitor the health of children under five years of age and their families, and to involve the family in promoting optimum health and development of all children.
- Clinical Experience and Practice
Undertake home visits and regular reviews to support vulnerable families, groups and individuals giving information and support.
- Clinical Experience and Practice
Undertake and record Child Health Surveillance and Screening programmes in accordance with Trust Standard Operating procedures.
- Clinical Experience and Practice
Apply Early help strategies and procedures and act as Lead Professional for families as appropriate.
- Clinical Experience and Practice
Identify, prioritise, develop and implement programmes of care to meet individual and local needs, taking into account cultural diversity.
- Clinical Experience and Practice
Use child and family centred approaches to address health inequalities, including the promotion of good health, the prevention of ill health and the implementation and evaluation of individualised programmes of care.
- Clinical Experience and Practice
Be aware of deviations from the normal in health and behaviour, and to intervene to protect vulnerable children and adults by prompt action, referral and working with other agencies as part of a specialist team.
- Clinical and Public Health Skills
Use strength based, problem solving/solution focused strategies and motivational interviewing skills to enable families to develop behaviour change strategies.
- Clinical and Public Health Skills
Participate in health promotion to identify target groups promoting the achievement of immunisation and infant feeding targets.
- Clinical and Public Health Skills
Support the increase in breastfeeding initiation and continuation.
- Clinical and Public Health Skills
Identification of possible environmental factors implicated in ill health and initiating public health measures where necessary.
- Clinical and Public Health Skills
To clinically interpret information, analyse and identify appropriate plans/packages of care in line with Universal, Universal plus and or Partnership plus cases within the Health Visiting caseload.
- Clinical and Public Health Skills
To plan and organise workload with appropriate skill mix application in line with NELFT’s service operating procedures and competency frameworks.
- Clinical and Public Health Skills
Prioritize own workload on a day-to-day basis to ensure that deadlines are met.
- Clinical and Public Health Skills
To be computer literate.
- Clinical and Public Health Skills
Ensure accurate recording of actions, and updating patient’s records, maintaining confidentiality at all times.
- Clinical and Public Health Skills
To ensure Electronic record system are maintained in line with local policy and NMC standard.
- Safeguarding and Child Protection
Operate within Children & Young People Services Child Safeguarding Policies, Standards and Procedures, recognising and taking appropriate action in relation to children where there is suspicion of abuse.
- Safeguarding and Child Protection
Be aware of, and adhere to, national and local Child Protection guidelines and procedures in the Children’s Act.
- Safeguarding and Child Protection
Participate in strategy meetings, case conferences, providing reports as required and to have clinical and safeguarding supervision as per policy for Safeguarding children.
- Safeguarding and Child Protection
Access Clinical and Safeguarding supervision in line with NELFT Safeguarding and supervision Policies.
- Safeguarding and Child Protection
Liaise with Safeguarding Advisor/Named Nurse Safeguarding Children regarding children at risk and families in need.
- Leadership, Supervision and Teamwork
Provide leadership to other members of the 0-19, inclusive of preceptorship, mentorship, managerial and Safeguarding supervision.
- Leadership, Supervision and Teamwork
Be responsible for setting exemplary standards and acting as a role model for others.
- Leadership, Supervision and Teamwork
Deputise for the Team Leader/Specialist Health Visitor as required.
- Leadership, Supervision and Teamwork
To support and appraise staff as required.
- Leadership, Supervision and Teamwork
To be a named supervisor for junior team members inclusive of provision of 1-1s, appraisals and on-going day to day supervision and support.
- Leadership, Supervision and Teamwork
Provide mentorship to pre-registration students.
- Leadership, Supervision and Teamwork
Provide professional safeguarding supervision for identified staff as per NELFT policy.
- Leadership, Supervision and Teamwork
Provide/participate/lead (as per consolidated experience) under the direction of your team lead/manager in the Preceptorship of Newly qualified Health Visitors.
- Leadership, Supervision and Teamwork
Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Leadership, Supervision and Teamwork
Be responsible for the organisation cover in periods of planned absence e.g. annual leave and study leave.
- Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Provide and receive complex information in relation to children and their families, and communicate this information in a sensitive and professional manner.
- Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Recognising and responding to clients who have communication barriers and booking interpreters when required.
- Communication and Interpersonal Skills
To be able to effectively communicate with colleagues, peers, senior managers and clinical /operational Leads within the Trust.
- Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Maintain positive working relationships, offering advice and support, with professional colleagues and the general public.
- Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Demonstrate highly developed negotiating and influencing skills, empathy, tact and persuasion for use with parents/professionals and team members.
- Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Manage conflict effectively, seeking advice when necessary.
- Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Ensure effective communication with parents/carers for interventions being undertaken.
- Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Liaise and maintain good working relationships with statutory and voluntary agencies whilst making referrals and consulting as necessary.
- Communication and Interpersonal Skills
To challenge decisions where necessary in a professional manner.
- Service Development and Clinical Governance
Be pro-actively involved on going service developments, inclusive of the wider integration agenda whilst working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Service Development and Clinical Governance
Participate in relevant working groups/ projects and initiatives to support service development.
- Service Development and Clinical Governance
To participate in projects that deliver clinical and service improvements and health gain outcomes whilst improving the health and well-being of the child and family.
- Service Development and Clinical Governance
Support the development of clinical governance initiatives in conjunction with line manager.
- Service Development and Clinical Governance
Co-ordinate data to support team activity and the management team in ensuring the service quality and efficiency.
- Service Development and Clinical Governance
Ensure own continued professional development and support a culture of lifelong learning in self and others.
- Service Development and Clinical Governance
Assume responsibility and maintain own continual professional development and clinical competence.
- Qualifications and Professional Registration
Work as an autonomous Practitioner within the NMC Code and Clinical Governance Frameworks.
- Qualifications and Professional Registration
Work at all times in accordance within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
- Qualifications and Professional Registration
Ensure professional portfolio in line with NMC revalidation requirements.
Desirable
Not listed in the available specification.
Job summary
Thurrock has an exciting opportunity for Band 6 Health Visitors. If you are an experienced Health Visitor, or soon to be qualified Health Visitor, we would love to hear from you. We are looking to recruit motivated practitioners with initiative and drive who are keen to contribute to the further development of our service. We work in close collaboration with Family Hubs as well as other agencies to improve outcomes and reduce health inequalities for children, young people and their families in our borough. For newly qualified practitioners, we have a Preceptorship Programme in place to aid your development. We also offer a wide range of in-house and other training opportunities for continuous professional development through our learning and development department. We provide monthly clinical supervision, mentorship and yearly appraisals to support you in your role and development. We are an inclusive organisation and are keen to celebrate the success and hard work provided by practitioners in improving the health outcomes for children we work with.
Main duties of the job
To lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, and ensure the 4, 5, 6 Service model is implemented in practice. Ensure services are provided within the HCP model- Your Community, Universal, Targeted and Specialist Services This will incorporate building community capacity, and embedding this into caseload, team and locality management. Responsible for the management of caseload allocation as per locality/team, and classify cases in line national stratify of Universal, Universal plus and Universal partnership plus. Work in accordance to the Locality commissioned service specification, to ensure the 5 mandated reviews are completed within required timescales, services provided are evidence based practice and the 6 High impact areas are embedded within practice. To improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people especially those from disadvantaged groups. To Identify, prioritise, develop and implement programmes of care to meet individual and local needs, taking into account cultural diversity. This will be achieved through evidence based assessments, effective care planning and implementation of a range of support packages for individual families, targeting the most vulnerable families and groups utilising best available evidence
About us
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex. We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.
Details
- Date posted: 08 September 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 6
- Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Part-time
- Reference number: GHC-3EL-001997
- Job locations: Grays Health Centre, Grays, Essex, RM17 5BY, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Main duties of the job
To provide key contacts as per the Healthy Child programme, identifying and assessing health needs. Working within the wider multidisciplinary team to provide appropriate support for families.
To identify and assess children 0-5 with complex health needs, offering an enhanced integrated service within the multi agency team.
To identify possible safeguarding concerns and escalate for support as required, working with other agencies across the borough.
You will need to have the ability to work autonomously and as part of an integrated skill mix team. You need to have excellent communication skills and experience of working in partnership across organisational boundaries. You need to be willing to facilitate and support change in service delivery..
Starting with NELFT NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
Probationary Period This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
High Cost Area Supplement – Fringe (Basildon, Thurrock, Brentwood, Harlow and Dartford only) This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £1,303 to a maximum of £2,198 p.a. pro rata for part time)
Working for Us Joining Healthy Family 0-19 Service NELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives, along with staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest significantly in your development because when you feel valued and supported, we can deliver the highest quality care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been recognised in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and hold a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Through our staff networks and training opportunities, we strive to foster a just and compassionate culture at NELFT.
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This advert is for SCPHN Health Visitor with North East London NHS Foundation Trust in Ilford, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Health visitor role. The advertised salary is £39959.00 to £48117.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 21 Sep 2026.
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